Perennial drifter Steve returns home and quickly gets involved with his old flame Anna - even though she is shacked up with seedy gangster Slim Dundee. When Slim catches them together Steve comes up with an impromptu robbery plan that needs Slim's help and they form an uneasy gang with all three scheming - and not just about the robbery! Stars Burt Lancaster and Yvonne de Carlo, and introduces then-new-comer Tony Curtis. Based on the novel by Don Tracy.